Fridays on the Farm: The Four Seasons
Friday, May 21, 2021
2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
The Venue at Goebbert’s
42W813 Reinking Rd.
Pingree Grove, IL 60140
The Elgin Symphony Orchestra’s new summer festival Fridays on the Farm launches in style, with Music Director Andrew Grams on the podium! The program will open with music of Astor Piazzolla, who’s style seamlessly blends classical and Tango and will feature star violinist Karen Gomyo. The evening closes with Tchaikovsky’s famous Serenade for Strings.
CONCERT PROGRAM
Andrew Grams, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, op 48
TICKET INFORMATION
$100 per person
*Limited capacity, no discounts.
View Goebbert’s Limited Capacity Diagram
No in-person or walk-up box office available. Tickets available via phone or online only.
Reservation required in advance. Day-of sales not available.
Limit four per household.
FRIDAYS ON THE FARM– AN ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUMMER FESTIVAL
LOCATION: THE VENUE AT GOEBBERT’S
The tented space at The Venue at Goebbert’s Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard allows for an elegant, socially distanced evening of music. Attendees will be grouped by party and socially distanced, in the performance tent, which has open sides for ventilation. Musicians will sit under same tent as attendees, socially distanced from other musicians.
PHASE 4 CAPACITY: 100 PATRONS & 30 MUSICIANS
Seating area will be socially distanced. Reservations under the same name will be seated together.
No in-person or walk-up Box Office available. Tickets available via phone or online only.
Reservation required in advance. Day-of sales not available.
Socially distanced area assigned by Box Office. All tickets under reservation name will be seated together.
Limit four per household.
Goebbert’s is ADA accessible. Please contact the Box Office with any accessibility needs.
PHASE 5 CAPACITY: 500 PATRONS & FULL ORCHESTRA
If your preferred concert date/time is sold out or you do not feel comfortable attending a concert during Phase 4, a Wait List option is available. Visit our Contact Us page. Fill out the Form and select TICKET WAITLIST as Subject. In the message section, please indicate all concert dates and times you are interested in and the number of tickets needed for each.
SAFETY PROTOCOLS
The safety of our patrons, musicians and staff has been and will be our top priority. ESO does not own its own performance space, so we will be coordinating with each rental facility regarding cleaning and sanitizing practices and the proper amount of fresh and recycled airflow in their ventilation systems. We continue to monitor best practices from reputable sources on a daily basis. Every patron attending an ESO event during the pandemic will be notified 10-14 days prior to each event date via email, phone and/or mail of safety protocols for their upcoming event. Safety protocols will be based on the current Restore Illinois Phase and CDC guidelines at that time and may or may not include temperature checks, vaccine verification, health screening questions, mandatory wearing of face covering, socially distanced seating, timed arrival, restroom or concession breaks by seating area and self-parking (as examples). We will adhere to the policies mandated by local and state health officials as they develop. If at any time during the pandemic, you do not feel comfortable attending a concert due to safety protocols or for personal reasons, you may contact the ESO Box Office to donate your ticket value, ask for an ESO account credit or refund.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
KAREN GOMYU, VIOLIN
Born in Tokyo and beginning her musical career in Montréal and New York, violinist Karen Gomyo has recently made Berlin her home. A musician of the highest calibre, the Chicago Tribune praised her as:
“…a first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity”.
Karen’s 2019/20 season features European debuts with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Cristian Macelaru, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande with Jonathan Nott, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern with Pietari Inkenen, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Gergely Madaras and Dresdner Philharmoniker with Roderick Cox, as well as returns to Bamberg Symphoniker and Polish National Radio Symphony, among others.
Other recent European appearances include Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Radio France, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Danish National Symphony, and in March 2019 Karen opened the Dubai Proms with the BBC Symphony and Ben Gernon. Further ahead Karen makes her debut at the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Semyon Bychkov.
Already well established in North America Karen has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Detroit, San Francisco, Dallas, Cincinnati, Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, St. Louis, and Washington D.C.
Further afield her popularity in Australasia continued over the last few seasons as she toured with New Zealand Symphony and also appeared with West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Perth, Tasmanian Symphony and in recital at the Sydney Opera House. This season sees Karen return to the Melbourne and Sydney symphony orchestras. In Asia she makes her debuts with the Singapore Symphony and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Strongly committed to contemporary works, Karen gave the North American premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Concerto No. 2 Mar’eh with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington under the baton of the composer, as well as Peteris Vasks’ Vox Amoris with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds. In May 2018 Karen performed the world premiere of Samuel Adams’ new Chamber Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen to great critical acclaim. The work was written specifically for Karen and commissioned by the CSO’s ‘Music Now’ series for their 20th anniversary.
Karen has had the pleasure of working with such conductors as, Sir Andrew Davis, Cristian Macaleru, David Robertson, David Zinman, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Hannu Lintu, Jaap van Zweden, Jakub Hrusa, James Gaffigan, Karina Canellakis, Leonard Slatkin, Louis Langrée, Mark Wigglesworth, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, Neeme Järvi, Pinchas Zukerman, Thomas Dausgaard, Thomas Søndergård, Vasily Petrenko and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
A passionate chamber musician, Karen has enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with guitarist Ismo Eskelinen which culminates in the release of a recording of works by Paganini and his baroque predecessors scheduled for November 2019 on BIS Records. Karen has also collaborated with Kathryn Stott, Leif Ove Andsnes, James Ehnes, Antoine Tamestit, Emmanuel Pahud, Lawrence Power, Christian Poltéra, Alisa Weilerstein, Tine Thing Helseth, Lars Anders Tomter, Eric le Sage, Daishin Kashimoto, Paul Meyer, and the late Heinrich Schiff. She gave a three-week tour of Australia with Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and has also joined Jeremy Denk at his Milton Court/Barbican residency in London. She also appears regularly at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Future chamber plans include a new piano trio with pianist Olli Mustonen and cellist Julian Steckel.
Karen participated as violinist, host, and narrator in a documentary film produced by NHK Japan about Antonio Stradivarius called The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin, which was broadcast worldwide on NHK WORLD.
She is also a champion of the Nuevo Tango music of Astor Piazzolla, with plans in development for a diverse programme with the San Francisco Symphony. Karen regularly collaborates with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist and tango legend Pablo Ziegler, as well as, more recently, with bandoneon players Hector de Curto and JP Jofre.
Karen plays on the “Aurora” Stradivarius violin of 1703 that was bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.
For more information, visit http://www.karengomyo.com.
ANDREW GRAMS
Andrew Grams has been music director at the ESO since 2013. A protégé of Franz Welser-Möst, he has conducted orchestras around the world. Grams was named Conductor of the Year by the Illinois Council of Orchestras in 2015.
